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R ATIONAL A CTION T HEORY. Q UANTITATIVE A NALYSIS OF LARGE-SCALE D ATA SETS. ?. RAT AND QAD , ARE THEY MARRIED BY NOW OR STILL SINGLES?. THE BRIEF ANSWER: RAT AND QAD STILL HAVE NOT TIED THE KNOT AND ACTUALLY, RAT NOW IS CALLING QAD NAMES - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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RATIONAL

ACTION

THEORY

QUANTITATIVE

ANALYSIS OFLARGE-SCALE

DATA SETS

RAT AND QAD, ARE THEY MARRIED BY NOW OR

STILL SINGLES?

?

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THE BRIEF ANSWER:

RAT AND QAD STILL HAVE NOT TIED THE KNOT

AND ACTUALLY, RAT NOW IS CALLING QAD NAMES

THE INVENTED INVECTIVE: VARIABLE SOCIOLOGY

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WOUT ULTEEDEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN THE NETHERLANDS

ICS 20th ANNIVERSARY GRONINGEN NOVEMBER 11, 2006

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TO ANSWER ITS QUESTION, THIS PRESENTATION DISCUSSES PAPERS

BY NEED AND VAN TUBERGEN

IT SEEMS OBVIOUS THAT THE THESE TWO PAPERS, FROM ICS

MEMBERS, ARE MORE WITHIN QAD THAN WITHIN RAT

VARIABLE SOCIOLOGY IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE ICS?

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SEQUENCE IN MY PRESENTATION* DID RAT INVENT A SCAPEGOAT?

* DOES RAT OFFER A SOUND EXEMPLAR?

* DOES RAT HAVE ENOUGH PUZZLES?

* HOW DOES RAT DEAL WITH CONTEXTUAL EFFECTS?

* RAT AND ONE- OR MULTI-LAYERED THEORIES?

* RAT: ONLY MARKETS OR MORE INSTITUTIONS?

* RAT: INDIVIDUALS WHO ACT LOGICALLY OR INDIVIDUALS WHO THINK IN ANALOGIES?

IS RAT A STUMBLING PARADIGM?

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RAT HAS QAD AS A SCAPEGOAT

AND THE BÊTE NOIRE IS DUNCAN’S PATH MODEL OF THE SOCIO-

ECONOMIC LIFE CYCLE

BOUDON CURSED DUNCAN’S MODEL AS VARIABLE SOCIOLOGY,

THAT TERM OF OPPROBATION WAS APPLIED AGAIN TO DUNCAN’S

MODEL BY HEDSTRÖM

AND IS NOWAPPLIED GENERALLY BY ESSER

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BLAU & DUNCAN, THE AMERICAN OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE, 1967, p. 170

THE BASIC MODEL, WHICH PERTAINS TO THE USA IN 1962

SURELY, FIVE INDIVIDUAL VARIABLES

DOTS REFER TO CONCEPTS, ARROWS STAND FOR EFFECTS

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MISSINGCOEFFI-CIENTS

.342

.321

.288

.313

DUNCAN’S INGREDIENTS OF ADVANCED MODELS FOR FOUR AGE GROUPS

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DUNCAN COMPUTED FOUR MODELS TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT

THE SHIFT FROM AGRICULTURE TO INDUSTRY

WEAKENS THE TIE BETWEEN FATHER’S AND SON’S

OCCUPATION

AND STRENGTHENS THE BOND BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL

EDUCATION AND OCCUPATION

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TO BRING QAD INTO THE BOAT

OF RAT,

RAT OFFERS AN EXEMPLAR TO

QAD:

COLEMAN’S BOAT

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COLEMAN, FOUNDATIONS, 1990, P. 6:

‘THE MAJOR PROBLEM FOR EXPLANATIONS OF SYSTEM

BEHAVIOR

BASED ON ACTIONS AND ORIENTATIONS AT A LEVEL BELOW

THAT OF THE SYSTEM

IS THAT OF MOVING FROM THE LOWER LEVEL TO THE SYSTEM

LEVEL’NOTE: NOT MOVING FROM THE HIGHER TO THE LOWER LEVEL

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THE SOLUTION: COLEMAN’S BOAT

TAKEN FROM HEDSTRÖM 2005, p. 115

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SOCIETAL EDUCATIONAL

INEQUALITY

SOCIETAL INCOME

INEQUALITY

INDIVIDUALEDUCATION

INDIVIDUAL INCOME

COLEMAN’S BOAT APPLIED TO THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC LIFE CYCLE

Coleman, ‘Microfoundations and macrosocial behavior’, 1987

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THIS COLEMAN BOAT IS NOT SEAWORTHY

THE BOTTOM OF COLEMAN’S BOAT IS ALSO ITS ROOF

THE BEST BOAT IS A RAFT

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DUNCAN’S RELATION BETWEEN EDUCATION AND INCOME IS NOT ONLY AN INDIVIDUAL

RELATION

IT IS ALSO A MACRO PROPERTY: IT REFERS TO THE USA IN 1962

AND IT IS A VARIABLE SOCIETAL PROPERTY: IT CAN

BE COMPUTED FOR OTHER PLACES AND TIMES

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INDIVIDUALEDUCATION

USA 1973

INDIVIDUAL INCOME USA 1973

ONE WAY TO TURN A RELATION BETWEEN TWO MICRO PROPERTIES IN A MACRO PROPERTY

INDIVIDUALEDUCATION

USA 1962

INDIVIDUALINCOMEUSA 1962

INDIVIDUALEDUCATION

NETHERLANDS 1993

INDIVIDUALINCOME

NETHERLANDS1993

INDIVIDUALEDUCATION

NETHERLANDS2003

INDIVIDUALINCOME

NETHERLANDS2003

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OCCUPATION FATHER

OCCUPATIONSON

INFLOW ANDOUTFLOW

PERCENTAGES

ODDS RATIOS FOR UNEQUAL COMPETITIVE

OUTCOMES

A RAFT WITH TWO MASTS AND TWO SAILS TO REPRESENT THE SHIFT FROM THE FIRST TO THE

THIRD GENERATION OF MOBILITY STUDIES

THE SAILS TAKE THE RAFT IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS AND MAKE FOR SEPARATE MACROQUESTIONS

ANOTHER WAY TO TURN A RELATION BETWEEN TWO MICRO PROPERTIES INTO A MACRO PROPERTY

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RAT IS A PARADIGM ALTERNATIVE TO QAD, BUT WITHOUT A GESTALT SWITCH

ONE ERROR OF COLEMAN’S BOAT IS THAT IT DRAWS LINES FOR EFFECTS BETWEEN CONCEPTS, INSTEAD OF

LINES FOR DERIVABILITY BETWEEN FALSIFIABLE PROPOSITIONS

THE OTHER ERROR IS THE GOAL OF MOVING FROM MICRO TO MACRO

IT IS EASIER TO MOVE FROM MACRO TO MICRO AND STARTING WITH MACROPROBLEMS DOES THE TRICK

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RAT UNTIL NOW HAS BEEN A PARADIGM LARGELY

WITHOUT PUZZLES, AND EVEN MORE SO PUZZLES

ABOUT SOCIETIES

GOLDTHORPIAN RAT SEEKS TO EXPLAIN AN EMPIRICAL

REGULARITY, WHICH IS NOT MUCH OF A PUZZLE

GOLDTHORPE, ON SOCIOLOGY, 2000

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ALSO, ANY GOOD THEORY EXPLAINS A HOST OF EMPIRICAL

REGULARITIES

UNTIL NOW RAT DOES NOT DO SO

RATHER, RAT OFFERS SEVERAL EXPLANATIONS FOR ONE

REGULARITY

THAT IS TOPSYTURVYDOM

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THESE TO-BE-EXPLAINED EMPIRICAL

REGULARITIES SHOULD PERTAIN TO SOCIETIES

IF THE REGULARITIES PERTAIN TO INDIVIDUALS

ONLY, THEY FALL OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF

SOCIOLOGY’S QUESTIONS

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NEED’S PAPER AND VAN TUBERGEN’S PAPER TAKE SOCIETIES AS THE UNITS

ON WHICH QUESTIONS ARE BEING RAISED

THESE QUESTIONS ALSO REFER TO THE VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE POPULATIONS OF THESE

SOCIETIES

NEED AND VAN TUBERGEN RAISE MULTI-UNIT QUESTIONS

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VAN TUBERGEN SEEKS TO EXPLAIN SEVERAL EMPIRICAL

REGULARITIES

NEED HAS A PUZZLE:

WHY DO MORE LIBERAL ABORTION LAWS IN A

COUNTRY NOT ALWAYS MAKE FOR MORE

ABORTIONS?

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THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH HAS MANY PUZZLES OF NEED’S TYPE:

COUNTRIES WHERE PERSONS HAVE THE MOST SEXUAL

PARTNERS, ALSO HAVE THE LOWEST INCIDENCE OF

SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS AND UNPLANNED

PREGNANCIESWellings, The Lancet, November 4, 2006

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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MODEL’S PUZZLE THAT

WHEREAS THE POPULATION OF THE NETHERLANDS IS

RELATIVELY TOLERANT OF MIGRANTS,

IN THE NETHERLANDS SELF-EMPLOYMENT OF MIGRANTS IS

RELATIVELY LOW?Model, Martens, Silberman, Veenman, ‘Immigrant incorporation in France, England and the Netherlands’ paper presented at RC28 in

Libourne in 2000

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PROBLEMS PRECEDE THEORIES

PUZZLES ARE ANCHORS FOR COLEMAN’S BOAT

MACROPUZZLES MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO MOVE FROM

MACRO- TO MICROTHEORIES

THE HEAVIEST ANCHORS ARE MICRO-MACRO PARADOXES

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CRIMINOLOGISTS ARE LESS CRIMINAL THAN THE REST,

SO HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT MORE CRIMINOLOGISTS IN A

COUNTRY GOES HAND IN HAND WITH MORE CRIME?

DO CRIMINOLOGISTS THROUGH WISHY-WASHY ADVICE

INCREASE THE CHANCES THAT FIRST-OFFENDERS BECOME

RECIDIVISTS?

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DO NOT THROW OUT MICRO-MACRO PARADOXES

AS ‘ECOLOGICAL FALLACIES’ OR

‘AGGREGATIVE FALLACIES’

THINK UP HYPOTHESES ABOUT CONTEXTUAL

EFFECTSRobinson, ‘Ecological correlations and behavior of individuals’, 1950

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NEED AND VAN TUBERGEN HAVE HYPOTHESES WITH CONTEXTUAL

PROPERTIES OF INDIVIDUALS

CATHOLICS ARE MORE AGAINST ABORTION IN COUNTRIES WITH A

HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF CATHOLICS

IF THERE ARE MORE MIGRANTS IN A COUNTRY, THE PERCENT OF SELF-EMPLOYED AMONG MIGRANTS IS

HIGHER

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MACRO-X MACRO-Y

MICRO-X MICRO-Y

CONTEXTUAL EFFECTS AND THE COLEMAN BOAT

COLEMAN’S BOAT DOES NOT NEED REINFORCEMENT OF THE HULL

COLEMAN’S BOAT NEEDS ANCHORS, SAILS AND PEDALS FOR THE RAFT

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SOME PARADIGMS IN SOCIOLOGY COMPRISE,

APART FROM A HOST OF EXPLAINED REGULARITIES,

ONE HIGHER-LEVEL AXIOM

AND SEVERAL LOWER-LEVEL HYPOTHESES

LENSKI CALLS THEM MULTI-LAYERED THEORIES

Lenski, ‘Rethinking macrosociological theory’, 1988

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TWO EXAMPLES OF MULTI-LAYERED THEORIES IN

SOCIOLOGY OUTSIDE RAT:

LENSKI-NOLAN ECOLOGICAL EVOLUTIONISM

THE DURKHEIM-LAZARSFELD-HIRSCHI

INTEGRATION HYPOTHESIS

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RAT MAY BECOME MULTI-LAYERED,

BUT RIGHT NOW IT OFTEN IS NOT

RAT’S QUEST FOR MECHANISMS SIDETRACKS

DIJKSTERHUIS, MECHANIZATION OF THE WORLD PICTURE, 1950, compare HEDSTRÖM AND SWEDBORG,

SOCIAL MECHANISMS, 1998, p. 2, n. 4

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A HIGHER-LEVEL HYPOTHESIS

CORRECTS A LOWER-LEVEL HYPOTHESIS

RAT DOES NOT ALWAYS APPRECIATE

THIS Popper, ‘The aim of science’, 1957, p. 32

compare HEDSTRÖM, PRINCIPLES OF ANALYTICAL SOCIOLOGY, p. 31, law-covering explanations do not allow of exceptions, explanations by mechanisms do

allow exceptions

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MOVING FROM A LOWER-LEVEL HYPOTHESIS TO A

HIGHER-LEVEL HYPOTHESIS

AMOUNTS TO RE-INTERPRETING AN

INHERENT PROPERTY AS

A RELATIONAL PROPERTYPopper, ‘Aim of science’, 1957, p. 29

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NEED HAD A MULTI-LAYERED THEORY IN 2004, VAN TUBERGEN

IN 2005

BUT DID THEIR HIGHEST-LEVEL HYPOTHESIS

CORRECT LOWER-LEVEL HYPOTHESES?

De Graaf, Need & Ultee, ‘Leaving the church in the Netherlands, a comprehensive explanation of three empirical regularities’,

2004

F. VAN TUBERGEN, THE INTEGRATION OF IMMIGRANTS IN A CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE, 2005

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HOW TO GO BEYOND THE IDEA OF CONTEXTUAL PROPERTIES OF INDIVIDUALS AND MAKE MULTI-

LAYERED THEORIES?

DISTINGUISH TYPES OF CONTEXTUAL PROPERTIES

AND SPELL OUT A THEORY COMPRISING HIGHER- AND

LOWER-LEVEL HYPOTHESES AND AUXILIARY ASSUMPTIONS

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WHICH AXIOMS AND AUXILIARY ASSUMPTIONS DOES THE RAT

PARADIGM HAVE?BECKER, A TREATISE ON THE FAMILY, 1981, p. viii

‘THIS VOLUME USES THE ASSUMPTIONS OF MAXIMIZING

BEHAVIOR, STABLE PREFERENCES, AND

EQUILIBRIUM IN IMPLICIT OR EXPLICIT MARKETS’

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BECKER HERE STATES THE AXIOM THAT INDIVIDUALS ARE

RATIONAL AND THE AUXILIARY ASSUMPTION THAT THEY ACT

ON MARKETS

HOWEVER, NOT ONLY MARKETS COORDINATE INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR

AUXILIARY ASSUMPTIONS ARE NOT ANCILLARY ASSUMPTIONS

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RATIONAL CHOICE SOCIOLOGY IS A MISNOMER

THE PROPER NAME IS MARKET SOCIOLOGY

THIS IS NOW RECOGNIZED IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF

RELIGIONALBERT, MARKTSOZIOLOGIE UND ENTSCHEIDUNGSLOGIK,

1967

Iannaccone, ‘Voodoo economics?’, 1995, p. 76: ‘… a[n] … application of rational choice [theory] - the religious market alternative to

secularization theory - …’

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HOW TO EXPAND MARKET SOCIOLOGY?

RAT IS IN NEED OF A THEORY OF SOCIETY

WHICH GOES BEYOND THE AUXILIARY ASSUMPTION THAT

MARKETS ARE THE ONLY INSTITUTION COORDINATING

HUMAN ACTION

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HEILBRONER AND THE PRODUCTION OF INDIVIDUAL GOODS:

* MARKETS HUNGER AVERSION

* HIERARCHIES PAIN AVERSION

* COMMUNITIES DERISION AVERSIONFREE AFTER HEILBRONER, THE WORLDLY PHILOSOPHERS, 1953

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SO, APART FROM MARKET SOCIOLOGY

THERE IS

ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY AND

CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY

THE OPPOSITION BETWEEN RATIONAL ACTION AND NORM-GUIDED BEHAVIOR IS FALSE

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VAN DEN DOEL AND THE PRODUCTION OF COLLECTIVE GOODS BY SOCIETAL

POLITIES:

* WISE BENEVOLENT DICTATOR

* TWO INDEPENDENT PERSONS

* A POPULATION MAKING UNANIMOUS DECISIONS

* MAJORITY DECISIONSVAN DEN DOEL, DEMOCRACY AND WELFARE ECONOMICS, 1978

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BLAU AND THE PRODUCTION OF SOCIAL RELATIONS (MARRIAGES,

CRIMES) BY PREFERENCES AND OPPORTUNITIES

* SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS ON ONE PARAMETER OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE

* MOBILITY IN TIME ALONG ONE PARAMETER OF SOCIAL STRCUTRE

* CROSS-CUTTING PARAMETERS OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE

* CONCENTRIC CIRCLES OF PARAMETERS OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE

BLAU, CROSSCUTTING SOCIAL CIRCLES, 1984

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IMPROVING AUXILIARY ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT MACRO OUTCOMES:

MARKETS: OPTIMAL EQUILIBRIA OR COMPETITIVE EXCESSES?

HIERARCHIES: CRIME-FREE STREETS OR BUREAUCRATIC PATCHWORK?

COMMUNITIES: SHARED COSINESS OR PRESTIGIOUS LEADERS WITH

SECRETE VICES?ELIAS, UEBER DEN PROZESS DER ZIVILISATION, 1939

LIPSKY, STREET LEVEL BUREAUCRACY, 1980

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NEED AND VAN TUBERGEN HAVE AUXILIARY ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT

MARKET FREEDOMS:

USING OR NOT USING THE RIGHT

TO ABORTION

EQUAL RIGHTS TO A JOB

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NEED AND VAN TUBERGEN ALSO HAVE AUXILIARY ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT HIERARCHIES:

MORE OR LESS LIBERAL STATE LAWS ABOUT

ABORTION

STRICTER OR LESS STRICT LAWS ABOUT ENTERING A

STATE

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NEED AND VAN TUBERGEN HAVE AUXILIARY ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT COMMUNITIES TOO:

RELIGIOUS PERSONS ARE MORE AGAINST ABORTION IN

COUNTRIES WITH MORE RELIGIOUS PERSONS

MIGRANTS ARE MORE LIKELY SELF-EMPLOYED IN

COUNTRIES WITH MORE MIGRANTS

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NEED AND VAN TUBERGEN PROPOSE MULTI-INSTITUTION EXPLANATIONS,

AND THEREFORE GO BEYOND BECKERIAN MARKET SOCIOLOGY OF

THE FAMILY AND

STARKIAN MARKET SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION

DO NEED AND VAN TUBERGEN HAVE ALTERNATIVE AUXILIARY ASSUMPTIONS ON MACRO

OUTCOMES?STARK & FINKE, ACTS OF FAITH, 2000

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THAT WAS MY LONG ANSWER TO THE

RAT-QAD RELATION QUESTION:

THE QAD OF NEED AND VAN

TUBERGEN IS NOT VARIABLE SOCIOLOGY

THEIR QAD ACTUALLY GOES BEYOND RAT

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THUS RUNS MY RESURRECTION OF THE

RAT PARADIGM BY WAY OF BETTER

AUXILIARY ASSUMPTIONS

IT IS POSSIBLE TO GO BEYOND THE RAT

AXIOM THAT PEOPLE ACT RATIONALLY?

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COMPARE HEDSTRÖM, DISSECTING THE SOCIAL, ON THE

PRINCIPLES OF ANALYTICAL SOCIOLOGY, 2005

WITH LENSKI, ECOLOGICAL-EVOLUTIONARY THEORY,

PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS, 2005

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HEDSTRÖM DISCUSSES THE PRINCIPLES OF ANALYTICAL

SOCIOLOGY WITHOUT ALWAYS STATING THEM CLEARLY

LENSKI ENUMERATES THE PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGICAL

EVOLUTIONISM BEFORE APPLYING THEM

HEDSTRÖM HAS ONE EMPIRICAL APPLICATION, LENSKI FOUR

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ECOLOGICAL EVOLUTIONISM CONTAINS THE ASSUMPTION

THAT PEOPLE ACT RATIONALLY,

AND IS MUCH RICHER IN AUXILIARY ASSUMPTIONS

AND MACRO-EFFECTS

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HOW TO IMPROVE ECOLOGICAL

EVOLUTIONISM?

ARE THERE ALTERNATIVES TO THE AXIOM THAT

PERSONS ACT RATIONALLY?

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THE FIRST ALTERNATIVE AXIOM

HOW DO PERSONS MAKE COGNITIONS COHERENT?

THEY CHANGE COGNITIONS BUT MAINTAIN THEIR WORLDVIEW

ACTIONS OF INDIVIDUALS ARE ADEQUATE TO THEIR WORLDVIEW

Weber, ‘Protestantische Ethik’, 1905; cf. Webbink & Ultee, ‘Orthodox Protestantism and vaccination in the Netherlands: unorthodox questions about modernization, markets, and

secularization’, forthcoming

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TO ANSWER MACRO QUESTIONS, APART FROM A THEORY OF

INDIVIDUAL ACTION,

A THEORY IS NEEDED ABOUT INDIVIDUAL THINKING

PEOPLE DO ALWAYS NOT THINK LOGICALLY

THEY OFTEN THINK IN ANALOGIES

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THE SECOND ALTERNATIVE AXIOM

HUMAN BEINGS FIRST THINK IN ANALOGIES, THEN LOGICALLY

EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGIST PINKER, THE BLANK SLATE, 2002, AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST DAWKINS, THE GOD DELUSION, 2006

THREE TYPES OF ANALOGIES:

BIOMORPHIC MODELS SOCIOMORPHIC MODELS

TECHNOMORPHIC MODELSTOPITSCH, VOM URSPRUNG UND ENDE DER METAPHYSIK, 1958

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LENSKI TOPITSCHTYPE OF THOUGHT

SOCIETY MODEL

HUNTING AND GATHERING BIOMORPHIC

SIMPLE HORTICULTURE BIOMORPHIC

ADVANCED HORTICULTURE TECHNOMORPHIC

AGRARIAN SOCIOMORPHIC

EARLY INDUSTRIAL MACHINES LATER INDUSTRIAL COMPUTERS

Moor, Ultee & Need, ‘Analogies, subsistence technologies, and (non)moral supreme creator gods’ forthcoming

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IN THIS WAY AN EVOLUTIONARY SOCIOLOGY

ARISES,

SURPASSING RATIONAL CHOICE ECONOMICS AND

BOUNDED RATIONALITY PSYCHOLOGY

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DID I ‘SINK THE COLEMAN’?

COLEMAN’S BOAT WAS ALREADY MAKING WATER

BUT DID I PRESENT AN AIRWORTHY PLANE?

RAT-QAD VERSUS EVOLUTIONARY SOCIOLOGY

AS A THEME FOR 25 YEARS ICS!

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